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The Humanitarian Response Unit of DanChurchAid met with beneficiaries of combined DCA/RDRS activities during a workshop in Northern Bangladesh
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Just outside of Port-au-Prince, community leader Altenor Ronald expressed a mixture of frustration, anger and disorientation as he tried to coordinate the relocation of the displaced into a roadside displacement site. “We have no food, no stoves, people are hungry. I’m in charge and I don’t know what to do,” he said.
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On January 12th, a month ago this friday, a massive earthquake measuring 7.0 on the richter scale struck Haiti. The quake lasted about 35 seconds, but left the capital Port-Au-Pince and the surrounding inhabited areas in ruins, killing more than 200.000 and leaving 1.2 million people homeless.
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Marie Sylsalve cradled her 10-day-old son, McAnley, and reflected on three weeks that have taken an almost incomprehensible toll. She last saw her husband in the moments immediately following the 12 January earthquake. The family’s home was destroyed and Sylsalve saw a wall fall on Andre. She presumes he is dead – it has been three weeks now. And twelve days later she gave birth in the ruins.
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At an ACT Alliance distribution of food and goods, workers set about allocating relief to the most vulnerable. Pregnant women and families with young children come first.
Then things go horribly wrong.
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Then things go horribly wrong.
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With Haiti’s healthcare services in worse shape than before the earthquake, ACT Alliance members in Port-au-Prince continue to support medical care for Haiti’s most vulnerable.
As it had done long before January 12, ACT is caring for the children. Traumatized, ill and suffering loss of limbs, hundreds of children need round-the-clock care. Read more...
As it had done long before January 12, ACT is caring for the children. Traumatized, ill and suffering loss of limbs, hundreds of children need round-the-clock care. Read more...
More than a million people in Haiti’s capital will this evening be without shelter and no immediate prospect of accommodation in camps. Between 60 and 80 percent of the houses in Port-au-Prince were brought down or are uninhabitable by Tuesday’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake.
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DanChurchAid is Raising Funds for the Victims of the Earthquake
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Typhoon Ketsana caused major havoc in eight provinces of Cambodia on September 29 - 30, 2009. ”This is quite unusual. I have never seen anything like this in Cambodia," says DanChurchAid employee Sila Phung, on his return from the affected provinces in northern Cambodia.
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In the wake of the recent severe floods in Southern India, ACT International has launched a preliminary appeal for flood relief operations underway, as fears mount that the region could face severe food shortages.
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The refugee camps in Darfur are alive with conversations and activities, where men and women are busy with daily chores, literacy classes, meetings and income-generating activities. Gathered in a community center, the women talk about their fears of being attacked and their desire to go back home. Although Sudan's president al-Bashir ordered 16 humanitarian organisations out of the country in March 2009, the humanitarian organisations and the people in the camps are still going strong. They are hopeful.
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Israeli missiles destroyed a DCA-supported health clinic in and Gaza on Sunday.
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The situation in Gaza remains to be difficult and dangerous. ACT situation report from Gaza.
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Food, medicine, blankets and trauma counselors are being loaded into trucks by ACT International and are headed for Gaza. In cooperation with UN agencies, ACT has prepared the much needed assistance and is awaiting permission from the Israeli army for the trucks to enter the blockaded area.
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Three mobile health clinics, run by DanChurchAids partner organisation, have been destroyed in an Israeli air strike.
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Very little aid reaches the population in Gaza.
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ACT International warns of a dramatic escalation of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, if Israel, Hamas and other militant groups do not cease the current hostilities and avert a new military conflict.
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Security situation:The situation in North Kivu is relatively calm at the moment.
However, clashes between armed groups are being reported daily in both Masisi and Rutshuru territories. Read more...
However, clashes between armed groups are being reported daily in both Masisi and Rutshuru territories. Read more...
While official figures of newly displaced people in crowded camps around Goma are still being determined, another reality of displacement remains in the shadows: the thousands of families who have opened their modest homes to fleeing strangers.
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The security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo remains precarious and aid groups do not yet know what effect the most recent violence will have on the latest cease fire or humanitarian situation. First hand report from ACT aid worker in DR Congo.
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After panic and lootings by retreating troops a deadly calm has fallen over Goma in Eastern Congo.
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Vast areas in several departments in Honduras are hit by massive rain and floods. 23 people have been killed amd over 22.000 have been evacuated.
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The Danish government has established an Africa Commission on effective development cooperation with Africa.
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DanChurchAid prepares a Material Aid support of 750.000 DKK for foodstuffs, sanitary and household packages for the 30.000 refugees, that fled to Russian North Ossetia from Georgian South Ossetia in early august
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Heavy and incessant rainfall since June 16, 2008 has flooded many areas in the eastern states of Assam, Orissa and West Bengal leaving some 93 people dead and close to 2.7 million people affected.
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Accelerating climate changes, war, armed conflict, shrinking of humanitarian space, 9.9 million refugees and 24 million internally displaced. The environment where humanitarian action takes place is evolving rapidly and continuously, posing new challenges for the delivery of humanitarian assistance, disaster risk reduction and protection for affected communities.
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Members of the global alliance, Action by Churches Together (ACT) International of which DanChurchAid is a member, continue to respond to multiple floods crises across vast regions of Asia. Reuters reports that 35 million people are affected by the crisis in India, Bangladesh and Nepal alone. China and Pakistan have also suffered torrential rains and floods in the past month.
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Danish relief organisations like others in Europe should do more to defend humanitarian principles in the EU, says the president of a European NGO network
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After several sleepless nights with his mind on the many earthquake victims in Pakistan, a 94-year-old man in Denmark decided to take matters into his own hands: He remortgaged his house and donated DKK 1 million (approx. USD 157,015) to DanchurchAid for the thousands of people in Pakistan whose homes and livelihoods have been devastated by the earthquake.
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